My area was blessed with, not one, but two total eclipses in the last few years - one in 2017, and the other on April 8th, 2024. If you've never experienced one, it's a strange and wonderful phenomenon to witness. You don't notice it at first, but after a while, you sense everything getting a little dimmer. You can see the sun is being chipped away, a little at first, and then more until it's all gone. The sound around you dies down and everything is lit just a little bit - enough that it looks eerie. It's a hard feeling to describe, but here is what it looks like. There are two pictures as it starts to be eclipsed, one of totality, when the moon is covering the sun's disc perfectly, and then one last one as the moon keeps moving away from the sun. As I said, it's a truly awesome experience.
At first, you don't notice that it's getting darker.
By this point, you know it's getting close.
Those few seconds of totality seems to make the world stand still. It's an awesome experience.
By this point, that feeling that washed over you is still hanging around, but dissipating.
If you ever get a chance to witness a total eclipse of the sun, don't miss it! It's something that happens to a person very rarely, but when it does, you'll never forget it.
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